7 Warning Signs of an IODINE Deficiency
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Find out what the 7 warning signs of an iodine deficiency are!
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| 0:00.0 | Now, there are seven warning signs of an iodine deficiency. |
| 0:25.7 | You may be familiar with a thyroid problem. |
| 0:28.9 | If you're a low on iodine, you can actually create a hypothyroid condition. |
| 0:33.6 | And the various signs and symptoms of that would be hair loss, thinning of the hair, |
| 0:38.6 | lethargy, depression, dry hair, dry skin, as well as waking, and cold intolerance. |
| 0:46.4 | You do not tolerate cold. |
| 0:48.7 | And by the way, like in the US alone, there's like 10 million people who have hypothyroidism |
| 0:54.6 | in Europe. |
| 0:55.6 | It's 40 million people. |
| 0:57.8 | And just so you know, 90% of all hypothyroidism is more autoimmune. |
| 1:02.8 | And so it may not be an iodine deficiency. |
| 1:05.4 | However, iodine deficiency in general is very, very common. |
| 1:10.6 | 1.88 billion people on this planet have an iodine deficiency. |
| 1:15.1 | So it's quite a few people. |
| 1:17.2 | One of the best ways to know for sure if you are low on iodine. |
| 1:23.2 | I've talked about the patch test where you put a little drop of iodine on your skin and |
| 1:27.3 | you see if it gets absorbed. |
| 1:29.3 | But if you really wanted to do an accurate test to find out if you have an iodine deficiency, |
| 1:33.8 | you'd want to measure your thyroid stimulating hormone because that's a really good indicator |
| 1:38.8 | to know what's happening at the level between the pituitary and your thyroid. |
| 1:44.3 | Simply because the thyroid is an iodine hog. |
| 1:47.0 | So it's going to start hogging up all the iodine. |
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